ok, so i was origionally running mandriva 2008 spring, and all was good, until i tried to update, i used i586 update on a i686 hardware configuration (i know i was hoping it would work) i wanted to use the new firefox... it didnt work, im now locked out of my harddrive, and i can only access the terminal, and the restore command freezes the computer....so i decided to put dsl on my other harddrive and attempt to access the harddrive from it with no sucess, i cant see my other hard drive let alone access it, i just need to get a few files off it....i ran mandriva from the cd, and i can view the folders but i cant transfer them for some reason.... it has a lock ont he foler icon... can you help me either mount my cdrom so i can burn a new OS and try that out... and i would like to mount my other harddrive and attempt to move the files onto this harddrive so all will be good...

so my end query is, can you help me moun t my drives on my computer so i can have full access on the computer... ive tried this with minnimal success

cdrecord has always been there. It is the commandline tool which is the actual heart of many gaphical CD burning tools.

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.i ran mandriva from the cd, and i can view the folders but i cant transfer them for some reason.... it has a lock ont he foler icon

That sounds like a permissions issue. Try logging in as root to access the files.

In DSL, your drives should automatically be found and put in /etc/fstab if DSL recognizes them. If you look at the /etc/fstab file (a text file), you will see the names of the devices and the mountpoints. In this case the mount command needs only one of those names to work, mount /dev/hda2, for example.